Textile fragment with linked squares, flowers, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares, flowers, and tendrils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown, applied with mordant (probably by hand), and dyed red
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.758
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of brown linked squares with white tendrils inside and a small flower at the centre. The squares are linked by narrow white bands each with three dots inside, as well as by a smaller white square at each corner with a cross inside. The background is red.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The mordant for the brown areas was first block-printed and the background then filled in, probably applied by hand.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 751 on p. 221 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 221 fig. 751
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